Re: Thinkpad 770 memory problem

2008-07-18 Thread Pedro Martínez Juliá
Did you mixed PC66 and PC133? PC66 specifications are more strict than PC133. It could be problems iff you've got an strict motherboard or you're mixing both standards. El jue, 17-07-2008 a las 23:08 -0600, Isaac MacFarlane escribió: > I'll try that. It is worth a shot,but the BIOS test doesn't s

Re: Thinkpad 770 memory problem

2008-07-17 Thread Isaac MacFarlane
I'll try that. It is worth a shot,but the BIOS test doesn't show any errors. One thing does occur to me. The modules I put in were PC133 not PC66. In theory, they should be backward compatible, but maybe they aren't fully. Does anyone have any experience with that sort of thing? On Thu, Jul 17, 20

Re: Thinkpad 770 memory problem

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Isaac MacFarlane wrote: > The cat /proc/meminfo results in a MemTotal of 224436 kb. Okay. > When I try the mem=288M it gives me an Error 28: Selected item > cannot fit into memory. I believe that is a grub error. Grub doesn't believe there is that much memory present. > I find that puzzling si

Re: Thinkpad 770 memory problem

2008-07-17 Thread Isaac MacFarlane
Not on this system. It has a discrete video system builtin that has it's own memory. On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:15:24PM -0600, Isaac MacFarlane wrote: > > > >Hello all. I have 288MB installed in my system and the BIOS does se

Re: Thinkpad 770 memory problem

2008-07-17 Thread Paolo
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:15:24PM -0600, Isaac MacFarlane wrote: > >Hello all. I have 288MB installed in my system and the BIOS does see >it all, but Debian is only recoginizing 220MB. I tried adding a boot likely it's reclaimed by the video system, seems it's ~64MB shared video RAM. --

Re: Thinkpad 770 memory problem

2008-07-17 Thread Isaac MacFarlane
Another thought, I'm using the default kernel that comes with Debian. Would I have better success with a custom compiled one that is for the Pentium chip in the system? On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Isaac MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I was going by the System Monitor that is i

Re: Thinkpad 770 memory problem

2008-07-17 Thread Isaac MacFarlane
Well, I was going by the System Monitor that is included with GNOME. The cat /proc/meminfo results in a MemTotal of 224436 kb. When I try the mem=288M it gives me an Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory. I find that puzzling since the BIOS reports the full 288M. Running dmidecode shows th

Re: Thinkpad 770 memory problem

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Isaac MacFarlane wrote: > Hello all. I have 288MB installed in my system and the BIOS does see it all, > but Debian is only recoginizing 220MB. What indicators show only 220M of memory? This problem sounds very unusual to me. Also 288M seems like a lot of memory for the 770. After boot the 'dme

Thinkpad 770 memory problem

2008-07-16 Thread Isaac MacFarlane
Hello all. I have 288MB installed in my system and the BIOS does see it all, but Debian is only recoginizing 220MB. I tried adding a boot parameter in GRUB using the mem command, but I ended up with only 64MB after booting. The command was: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I may be misunderstanding the syntax a